The Guardian article starts with this sheer absurdity where they try to say that the death rate for COVID is the same as for Ebola (should I remind you that the ceiling for COVID mortality is 2.5% if we assume that every single person that got COVID was tested positive... so in reality is much, much lower than this): "A third of patients admitted to hospital in the UK with Covid-19 are dying, according to a major study whose authors said the observed death rates put the illness on a par with Ebola.".
So I admittedly didn't read pass that absolutely dumb and incendiary sub title the first time. Now I did, and sincerely I still can't find the original medical article... which I am getting more and more curious about.
I can't really understand how your comment is evaluated as "insightful". You started by claiming "I have honestly never seen a BLM activist proudly claim they are Marxists. Are you using Big Lie techniques... Just like Hitler would?". Then when proof was given that the co-founder of BLM herself declared to be a Marxist (in fact she claimed they were all trained Marxists), you came up with some grand notion of false equivalence with n.azis... although, nobody ever mentioned n.zis when answering you.
What is happening to Slashdot
I used to think like you, then I actually started reading about Marxism instead of just accepting the "people with good intentions" narrative and dared to look at the amount of human suffering that happened - every single time - these people got even a glimpse of power.
Marxism, not only started as un-apologetically anti human rights idology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_human_rights), but through time, all the time, and openly in the present, defend the discrimination, and elimination of certain people they seem as undesirables. There's nothing human, or righteous or moral in telling me that you want to see rich people deprived of their rights, as opposed to see black people deprived of their rights. These are both, exactly disgusting ideals.
Well, first of all I was answering to someone claiming "I have honestly never seen a BLM activist proudly claim they are Marxists.". That has been put soundly aside and some people are now trying to shift the discussion away from the fact... fair enough I guess.
I wonder what you think a "trained Marxist" is trained to do.
Second, what do you think a "trained n.zi" is trained to do then? The issue here is not how dangerous are these people individually, but how dangerous is the ideology they are trying to propagate.
The problem is the same as the leader of any other social movement describing himself as a "trained n.zi". It's clearly a problem for me, maybe it isn't for you, that's your right.
And yes, The Guardian is generally and historically considered to be left wing but quite a lot of moderate parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you're marching in the same rally, and you're not confronting them, then you're marching with them. This really isn't complicated.
I'm not sure if that's a good principle or not. But I am ok with it as long as it is applied to rallies with people espousing Communist symbols as well
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.